Despite all that, it turns out the sequel wasn’t yet in development and Patty Jenkins is not yet on board to direct, regardless of reports to the contrary. Now the Hollywood Reporter, who previously said Jenkins was signed for a sequel, now report she’s yet to sign. They also report that Warner execs may have been caught off guard by the film exceeding its opening weekend domestic estimates by a gobsmacking 59 percent:

“the DCEU may find itself being skewed more towards female superheroes than originally planned” I think what you meant to say there was skewed away from “visionary director” Zach Snyder. They are probably scrambling right now to give more creative control to Whedon on the final version of the Justice League film without opening up a PR nightmare for taking advantage of an unfortunate situation.

Studio projections are always conservative. It’s not a good idea to make a huge projection and then have a flop. Trying to take anything from that is just a lack of understanding of how the industry works.

Warner projected Batman v Superman at $110 million and it made $166. Around 38% off the mark. WW was 34% off… Disney was projecting The Force Awakens “could possibly make” $170 million. It made $248, 32% off the mark.

Deadpool is a much more extreme example of not knowing what they actually had. $55 projection vs $133 opening.

Anyway, none of this is leaving anyone gobsmacked or scrambling. They are popping champagne and lighting stogies with 100s. Unless Justice League is botched, it will defintely be the bigger movie and all things Batman are a priority considering it is their most valuable property , so not focusing lots of resources on those projects doesn’t make a lot of sense.

My quick math above was how much % less the projection was compared to the the actual take. The percent increase from the projection to the actual take to compare apples to apples to the number in the article are:
Deadpool: 142%
WW: 59%
BvS: 51%
TFA: 46%

Being off by more than 50% isn’t that shocking, even for movies that are sure fire blockbusters.

I really loved WW (for the same reason I love Captain America 1 more than any other Marvel movie) — for its optimism and spirit and conviction.

And then I listened to two women mewling on Screen Junkies about how they wept when they saw women on the screen in a battle and kept crowing about how “finally we have this,” and it made me ashamed to be a woman.

Can’t I just like a movie because it’s awesome or hate it because it sucks? Why can I only like things that conform to my First World, white, middle class limousine liberal lifestyle and if it doesn’t look like me, I have to hate it? (Looking at you, Screen Junkies hipsters.)

What is wrong with seeing yourself represented on screen and being happy about it? You are more than free to like or dislike whatever you want for the reasons you want. But shouldn’t you also offer than freedom to others?

Sunny Dee – I mean, there’s never really been a beloved and successful female superhero movie? You’re free to not think it’s a big deal but surely you see why other people might be so overwhelmed with joy. Muscly dudes have thus far been the only superheros kids could go see at the movies. It’s a big deal.

that’s the exact opposite of what happened. Tim wanted to make a spiritual successor. Ryan, etc. wanted to burn every last dollar Fox would Pony up and Fox and co. wanted to indoctrinate the series now that it’s proven successful.

So, Patty Jenkins (which sounds like the name a fat middle manager in an accounting firm would use for his made up girlfriend), has directed two films and they’ve received an academy award for the lead actress and $103 million domestic opening?

Negotiations? Ha. If she and her team don’t walk in and say I want exactly THIS much (insert very large sum here) + the freedom to make at least one passion project of my own choosing and for which I have absolute control over then I’m GTFO beeeotches.

I want to like the DCEU movies, but Snyder’s “vision” really brings them down. I appreciate with he did with Watchmen but not all these movies need that sort of treatment. I can see what he’s trying to do but it usually doesn’t come off right, it looks like with Wonder Woman they found a toned down version of that and sprinkled it with a little fun that you get from the MCU movies.